Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

1 Frank D'Albert, foreman of W. H. Herbert's job printing office at New York, was caught in a belt and crushed to death. The Pepperell Manufacturing Company of Biddeford, Me., has been Acquitted of the charge of importing alien labor under contract. The electrocution of Dr. Buchanan, the wife poisoner, at Sing Sing was deferred pending an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. A Chicago syndicate has purchased the site of the burped 'Delavan House at Albany, N. Y., and will build a ten-story steel frame structure. The 300 coatmakers of Baltimore, Md. f members of the United Garmentmakers of America, opposed to the sweating sys_tem, are out on strike.

The bill forbidding the appearance of women upon the stage unless attired in skirts failed, to receive the constitutional majority in the New York Assembly. A New Jersey Senate committee is investigating a charge that for SI,OOO Eva "L." HamiTfoni wiTe - of ‘RffbeTUitiry Harn--ilton. obtained through Gov. Abbott, who is now dead, and the New Jersey Court of Pardons, her release from State prison in November, 1890. < At South Actop, Mass;, Friday morning, one of the powder mills of the American Powder Company blew up. A few 7 minutes later a second mill, situated 100 yards away, also exploded. Fire, caused by the explosion, spread to the third mill, known as the Corning mill, and in a few minutes it also blew up and was destroyed. Five persons are believed..to have been killed. The woods close by the mills were set on fire and burned fiercely, the big storehouse of the company, containing 20,000 pounds of powder, and preventing the saving of property. Fifty 'roen were employed in the mills, and when the noise of the first explosion was heard those in the Corning mills, about thirtyln number, rushed from tlie building and escaped before the flames spread to the milk The 'mills; ten in number, are separated from each other and inclosed by high board fences. The explosion of the first mill set fire to the surrounding fence and the flames soon spread to the second mill. In fifteen minutes after the first explosion three of the mills had been destroyed.